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Wisconsin Public Radio News
March 14, 2018
In this Sept. 8, 2011 photo, U.S. Marine dog handler Sgt. Mark Behl, of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force K9 unit, from Cottage Grove, Wis, sits on a cot cleaning his rifle as his military working dog Fuli rests on another cot, at Forward Operating Base Jackson, in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghansiatn.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
March 14, 2018
In this Sept. 8, 2011 photo, U.S. Marine dog handler Sgt. Mark Behl, of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force K9 unit, from Cottage Grove, Wis, sits on a cot cleaning his rifle as his military working dog Fuli rests on another cot, at Forward Operating Base Jackson, in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghansiatn.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 9, 2018
... during the period in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Ghazni, Paktika, Paktia, Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Badghis, Farah, Takhar, Kunduz and Helmand provinces. Nearly 40 militants were killed in Kandahar's Maiwand and Spin Boldak districts, 14 in Helmand's Kajaki, Nawa, Nad Ali and Sangin districts.
Long War Journal
March 6, 2018
In Helmand, where the Red Unit has been very active, the Taliban currently controls six of the province's 14 districts (Baghran, Dishu, Khanashin, Now Zad, Musa Qala, and Sangin) and contests another six, including the provincial capital (Lashkar Gah, Nahr-i-Sarraj, Kajaki, Nad Ali, Marjah, and Garmsir),Ãâà...
Gandhara
February 15, 2018
FILE: Members of the Afghan security forces take position during an operation against Taliban in Helmand province in April 2017. ... Qahraman says it was Sangorian's operations behind insurgent lines in the strongholds of Sangin and Musa Qala districts that prevented the Taliban from overrunning theÃâà...
Jacksonville Daily News
February 5, 2018
Afghanistan's Helmand province has long been a prime battleground, particularly the area around Sangin, the insurgency's heartland. After the U.S. and NATO forces formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014 and shifted to a training role, the situation in Helmand began to dramaticallyÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
November 10, 2017
Marine Sgt. Andrew Comtois, advisor to Helmand's fledgling sniper training program, served three tours in Iraq and deployed to Sangin in 2013, when Marines were beginning to pull back to Leatherneck. On his wrist, he wore a bracelet bearing the names of four friends who had been killed in Afghanistan.
TOLOnews
May 28, 2017
Local officials said on Monday that seven insurgents have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Helmand on Sunday. Thumbnail. At least 7 Taliban insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces in Sangin district of southern Helmand province, local officials said on Monday. In addition, six otherÃâà...
Long War Journal
May 10, 2017
The Taliban paraded a large convoy of fighters into the district center of Sangin in Helmand province just one month after Resolute Support denied Afghan forces were defeated there. The Taliban force operated openly in the daylight without fear of being targeted by US or Afghan airstrikes. The TalibanÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2017
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban captured the strategic district of Sangin in the southern province of Helmand on Thursday, according to local officials. It was the culmination of a yearslong offensive that took the lives of more combatants than any other fight for territory in Afghanistan.
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